Cardiac Rehab Coordinator

Job description

Overview This position involves extensive coordination, planning, and evaluating patients and community members with diagnosed heart failure or symptoms of heart failure. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will provide rounding onpatients hospitalized with diagnoses of CHF or potential for CHF or signs and symptoms thereof. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will gather information to ensure that the Core measures for quality for this patient diagnosisare achieved. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator for Heart Failure will coordinate education for staff caring forpatients with heart failure and provide community education lectures. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator willcommunicate effectively with physicians involved in the care of these patients. The Cardiac Rehab Coordinator will chair the Heart Failure multidisciplinary team. As needed plan and provide cardiac and pulmonaryrehabilitative care to the patient while assuring patient safety. Also responsible for conducting an individual needs assessment; planning, implementing and monitoring the patient's exercise prescription and risk-factor reduction plan. This treatment of care is aimed to improve both physical function, general well-being, and prog...